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Recently Knowledge Forum Region North was founded. The aim of the knowledge forum is to share and reflect upon experiences, knowledge, and science, to increase society´s capability to cope with extreme events. Today the Knowledge forum consists of TripleEd, the … Continue reading
Markus had the opportunity of being a guest professor in Nice for a week. The purpose was to explore future opportunities, give a talk on research related to extreme contexts, and work on shared projects with professor Yvonne Giordano. The … Continue reading
TripleEd has the great pleasure and privilege of having two guests next week; Professor Amy Fraher from Southampton University, UK and Doctor Mika Mård at Åbo Akademi, Finland. We are really looking forward to the conversations! Please find their bios … Continue reading
Yesterday we had the great pleasure to listen to associate professor Andrea Mannberg and her presentation on social aspirations and risk taking in off-pist skiing. Andrea is an economist that have worked on different variations of risk behaviors. With a … Continue reading
Today we had the pleasure of having the first ODD seminar of the semester. Ulrica told the story about the paper “Multi-professional teamwork in human services: The mutual shaping of professional identity and team activities” (https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/JHOM-03-2017-0062) she have just published. … Continue reading
Oscar Rantatalo received a small research grant from Stieg Larsson Foundation (50 000 SEK) for complementary data collection on policing and criminal investigation of domestic violence in rural areas.
The other week we had the absolute pleasure of welcoming professor David Buchanan to Umeå as part of the research exchange program financed by Riksbankens jubileumsfond. During the visit David met with several people in the research group to discuss … Continue reading
Today we had the second Friday seminar. This time it was Björn´s turn to arrange the seminar. Björn chose a paper that he and Markus is writing on. The seminar included reading the draft of the paper, watching a five minute … Continue reading
Following the idea of the book Sprint, basically Design thinking but in Google variation, Oscar, Ola and Markus set off into the forest for some intense writing. The goal was essentially to put together a draft of a article in … Continue reading